Irenaeus Fabula 34. De Vulpe et Gallo

I'm embarking on a new Latin fable project here at the Latin Via Fables blog: digitizing the 300 fables in the Mithologica sacro-profana, seu florilegium fabularum by P. Irenaeus, published in 1666, which has recently become available at GoogleBooks. For a complete index of the fables in the book, with links to the fables I've digitized so far, check out the Aesopus wiki page at Aesopus.PBwiki.com.

Today's fable is De Vulpe et Gallo, the story of the rooster who outfoxed the fox. This is another fable that is not in Perry; does anybody know of another source for this fable?

To make reading the fable easier, I've provided a segmented version of the story below.

Rusticus Vulpi tetenderat laqueos, quae ei plurimam Gallinam devoraverat; in quos illa incurrit; capta, rogavit Gallum, a quo solo visa fuerat, ut opem ferret ut posset exire; super omnia, ne quid de se hero aperiret. Pollicetur Gallus quantum poscebat et properato gressu domum reversus, infidae nil fidei servaturus, hero nuntiat cecidisse Vulpem in casses vinctamque teneri. Is gestiens securi armatus currit ad locum, quo viso Vulpes, proditam se intelligens, "O me stolidam (dicebat), quae gallum, cuius olim tot feminas strangulavi ac devoravi, putavi mihi fore amicum fidumque.

Rusticus
Vulpi tetenderat laqueos,
quae
ei plurimam Gallinam devoraverat;
in quos
illa incurrit;
capta,
rogavit Gallum,
a quo solo visa fuerat,
ut opem ferret
ut posset exire;
super omnia,
ne quid de se
hero aperiret.
Pollicetur Gallus
quantum poscebat
et
properato gressu
domum reversus,
infidae nil fidei servaturus,
hero nuntiat
cecidisse Vulpem
in casses
vinctamque teneri.
Is gestiens securi armatus
currit ad locum,
quo viso
Vulpes,
proditam se
intelligens,
"O me stolidam (dicebat),
quae gallum,
cuius olim tot feminas
strangulavi ac devoravi,
putavi
mihi fore
amicum fidumque.

Here's an illustration for the fable (image source), showing a fable about a fox and a hen by Walter Crane:

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